AMERICA'S DETERMINATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17320, 21 May 1918, Page 5

AMERICA'S DETERMINATION

NO LIMIT TO MEN. CANNOT TRUST THE TEUTONS. NEW YK®K, May 19. (Received May 20, at 8.35 p.m.) President Wilson, addressing a Red Cross demonstration, said: We must win the war, and win it greatly. No limit need, bo placed on the men sent to France. All would be sent that ships could be found to carry. The United States was unable to trust the Teutons, as they had been proved to be insincere! The United States intended, therefore, not only to stand by France, but also Russia. Nothmg for a hundred years had so united the nations as the present cause. NEW DESTROYERS NAMED. NEW YORK, May 19. (Received May 21, at 0.50 a.m.) Mr Dajiiel has named 14 new destroyers which will be hurried to European waters. SHIPBUILDING PROGRAMME. SUBSTANTIAL ADDITIONS TO TONNAGE. NEW YORK, May 20. (Received May 21, at 1 a.m.) Bainbridge Colby, member of the United States Shipping Board, in the course of a speech, said that 50 larger-sized ships would be completed in June, and a larger number in July and August. AMERICAN RED CROSS. PRAISE FROM GENERAL FOCH. NEW YORK, May 20. (Received May 21, at 1 a.m.*) General Foch has cabled that the Red Cross Headquarters of America has generously brought the aid of the army industrial and commercial resources to France. These were a, sure pledge of victory. General Foch warmly praised the work of the American Red Cross.